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As part of the seminar “Political elites in times of conflict”, Cosima Meyer hosted another United Nations Security Council Simulation, facilitated by Doreen Faller and Fabio Reith from the DGVN, on May 31, 2021. The students represented different state actors and had the chance to experience ...

David Benjamin Weyrauch und Christoph Valentin Steinert. Instrumental or intrinsic? Human rights alignment in intergovernmental organizations. The Review of International Organizations (2021) Free access to the paper here  

Sabine C. Carey, Belén González and Neil J. Mitchell. “Media freedom and the escalation of state violence.”Accepted for publication at Political Studies, 7 May 2021. When governments face severe political violence, they regularly respond with violence. Yet not all governments escalate repression ...

Dr. Christian Gläßel, former PhD student at the Chair, supervised by Prof. Sabine Carey, and now postdoctoral researcher at the Hertie School of Governance, is co-recipient of the Lorenz-von-Stein-Preis 2020. This annual prize is awarded to outstanding dissertations in political science, social ...

Sabine Carey wrote about “The Promises and Perils of Pro-Government Militias in Armed Conflicts” on the PEACELAB Blog, published by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).

In this podcast of the Political Economy Forum, Sabine Carey talks about her joint work with Anita Gohdes on the killings of journalists. 

Anna-Lena Hönig, Cosima Meyer, Felix Olsowski, and Christoph Steinert participated at the International Studies Association 2021 Annual Convention held from April 6th – 9th, 2021. Though unfortunately not in Las Vegas, Nevada, as originally planned, they took the opportunity of the virtual ...

Professor Carey is organising a Publication Support Series for female PhD students and early career students in Europe working broadly on empirical questions in the area of conflict, peace and human rights research. The series consists of three online workshops (April 2021, October 2021, January ...

Professor Sabine Carey is organising an informal zoom session on 23 Feb 2021 at 10am CET for female political sciences students who are potentially considering pursuing a PhD. The goals of this about one hour long session are: to provide you with some basic information about the format of PhD ...

Cosima Meyer's and Dennis Hammerschmidt's (both University of Mannheim) new publication A Pledged Community? Using Community Detection to Analyze Autocratic Cooperation in UN Co-sponsorship Networks analyzes autocratic cooperation networks at the example of UNGA co-sponsorship. Using the Leiden ...